“I have to agree with David on this one. There are some moral issues that are cut and dry. I don’t know Ms Huffingtton and it’s God’s job to judge. But broadly speaking I don’t see how one can be pro-abortion rights and or gay marriage and still be Orthodox.”
Like I said, these are matters between an Orthodox Christian and his/her spiritual father. Quite simply, it’s not your call.
Orthodoxy, like Roman Catholicism and Protestantism, is filled with people who take advantage of “abortion rights” (can’t says as I know an Orthodoxer who thinks The Church should conduct gay marriages, though I know plenty who are neither surprised at nor care that the World allows such things). Are the sinners? Yup. Are they Orthodox? Yup.
“The Church is a hospital, and not a courtroom, for souls. She does not condemn on behalf of sins, but grants remission of sins.” +John Chrysostomos
And had the opinions of Arius or any of the other notorious heresiarchs been merely privately held doubts of the Orthodox Faith, they too would have been a matter between himself and his spiritual father. There is a matter of publicly and unrepentantly advocating positions at odds with the Faith which is a bit different than merely sinning. At some point in such cases, historically the faithful have objected and bishops and Holy Synods, not just spiritual fathers, have gotten involved.